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Because showing up to a client meeting dripping in sweat on a 103 degree day is considered to be poor form. Because I got a new job and don’t have an extra two hours in my day to ride a bike back and forth, and moving isn’t in the cards. Because I have to carry a couple kids and all the crap the goes along with them.
because the US sucks ass and the entire world just does what the US does is also sucking of the ass.
It's not that I disagree with you, it's that we can do better and we're not.
Why would a person ride their bike so fast that they end up dripping in sweat? Is there a reason for that?
you don't need to move at all to be dripping with sweat on a 103 day
Then what does the bike have to do with it? (Also, how hot is a 103 day?)
If you were in a car you wouldn't be hot. 103 is very hot, not safe for old people to be outside for very long. It's 103 degrees, so quite hot
"103 degrees" means that it's hot enough for water to boil. Water boils at 100 degrees, unless you're deep underground.
But okay, it sounds like that's a very rare temperature, then?
are you this dense on purpose?
It's about 40° C
because conservatives are fat
FWIW as an avid cyclist I've been yelled at numerous times by car drivers, and it's always skinny middle-aged dudes smoking cigarettes and driving well-dented vehicles. I've always wanted to be yelled at by a fat person so I can shout "enjoy your third heart attack" at them but it's never happened.
Bikes are awesome. I would love to experience the joy of waking up in the morning and riding a bike to work. No traffic, healthy and all that good shit. I live, however, 40min away from my work by car and 3 hours by bike, one way. I dont see this changing in the foreseeable future so my idea of freedom has to be something different.
You can do what I do and enjoy biking around town/your neighborhood as a leisure activity. Bike to whatever stores or appointments make sense. Biking to a hair cut for example is nice because the wind as you bike helps shake the bits of escaped hair out of your clothing!
Current I super commute while I get the money scraped together to move, and even then my job requires me to drive a personal vehicle to customer sites as needed so biking/public transit likely won't be an option until I land a better role with a company that isn't as cheap as this one
You can do what I do and enjoy biking around town/your neighborhood as a leisure activity.
What about the 50% of the population that's not suburban?
Half my life I've lived more than 5 miles away from the closest store on roads with no shoulders or sidewalks and 50mph speed limits.
It's great to give people advice for your situation, but less so for their situation isn't yours :)
In Europe this would likely be 30 mins commute on a train if you work in any sizable city. And you can take your bike on the train and finish the rest of the commute on the bike.
I did this but rented a bike in the city to drive to my work. The bike was only €15/month and paid by my employer.
Cop pulls you over on a bicycle:
"Drivers License and registration please"
"I don't need those, I'm not driving this bicycle, I'm travelling on it officer. Private conveyance. I don't contract with DMV."
"Right you are sir, have a nice day!"
Why haven't the sovcits cottoned on to this loophole?!
Have you physically seen the average sovcit?? No way they’re traveling on bicycles anytime soon haha
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